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1962: London’s big freeze

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Author Juliet Nicolson talks about her latest book, Frostquake, which tells the story of the frozen winter of 1962. As Britain shivered under a blanket of ice and snow, new political and cultural forces were emerging that would shake up the nation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.9

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

1:02.4

For Britain, the winter of 1962 and 63, was the worst in living memory.

1:09.7

The solent froze, icebergs stalked the Irish sea, and the nation ground to a frozen halt.

1:13.8

But as Juliet Nicholson chronicles in her new book Frostquake, as Britain shivered under a blanket of snow and ice, new cultural and political forces

1:20.4

were beginning to challenge the status quo. As the Beatles, David Bailey and Mary Quamp began to shake

1:26.5

things up. Here, in conversation with our

1:29.1

production editor Spencer Mizn, Juliette reveals how those few frozen months at the start of the

1:34.7

60s changed modern Britain for good. Juliet, you're a new book, Frostquake, tells a story of

1:41.5

the great freeze that paralyzed Britain over the winter of 1962 and 63.

1:47.0

And it also chronicles how the country emerged that spring and summer, a different country.

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